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Over 150% China tariff rate delayed by 90 days, 30% still in effect for iPhone season
And yet that’s what is happening.Anilu_777 said:“Global” price raises due to tariffs should NOT happen. If a country has no tariffs against China that relate to Apple’s products then there should be no tariff-related cost!!
Yet further proof that tariff wars are stupid and counterproductive, particularly when waged by a deeply stupid and counterproductive POTUS.
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Apple expected to announce another $100B U.S. manufacturing investment
I’m old enough to remember when conservatives would lose their shit over a POTUS who would demand obeisance from the most important American CEOs with the threat of devastating their markets with onerous taxes if they don’t.randominternetperson said:What a world we live in now. The market is thrilled about this announcement. I’m sure it’s not about the actual impact of a big investment in domestic manufacturing. It’s all about believing that Apple might get favorable treatment from our fickle king because they are willing to make look good with a joint announcement. Then at some point DJT will tweet something negative about Apple and AAPL will get clobbered again.
What the hell, I guess when one has decided that treason and pedophilia are A-OK then rank hypocrisy is small potatoes.
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White House: Apple set to announce a major investment
Flatter the fascist cult leader and things will go well for you 🙄
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/02/nx-s1-5489704/praise-trump-flattery
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Apple's $94B Q3 soundly beats Wall Street thanks to iPhone and China growth
Trump cultists will believe whatever their cult leader decrees, updated regularly. Last year they were vehemently in favor of releasing the Epstein files; this year they are protecting pedophiles 🤷♂️🤦♂️voice-of-reason said:
this is a mind-numbingly ignorant comment. Tariffs do NOT address trade deficits. No matter how high we "tariff" Vietnam, they do not have enough people or income to balance trade with us. You have to know this. I simply can't believe you actually believe a tariff war will even out trade deficits.mrwitt said:Tariffs are a very positive long term strategy. Our country has been taken to the cleaners for years with gross trade deficits.
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Apple's $94B Q3 soundly beats Wall Street thanks to iPhone and China growth
Even if this magical thinking was true… your messiah is:mrwitt said:Tariffs are a very positive long term strategy.
*using tariffs as a retaliatory foreign policy tool completely disengaged from economics and trade (the Brazil tariffs intended to force Brazil to corruptly manipulate its justice system to aid an ideological ally)*erratically applying tariff rates untethered from reality and later postponing them, creating tremendous uncertainty in markets
*damaging the value of the USD, which has declined precipitously vs other currencies
*inflicting great damage on US automakers’ profits
*making China look increasingly more desirable as a trade partner. China’s leadership is rational, stable, and seems to understand economics. China doesn’t base its economic policies on personal grudges and capricious whims. China doesn’t whipsaw between radically different economic and foreign policy goals every four to eight years. China doesn’t make agreements and then capriciously throw them out the window shortly thereafter as Trump has done with a trade deal made with Canada in his first term.
I don’t expect any of these facts to influence the opinions of devoted Trump cultists, who will always find a way to displace the blame for the negative fallout from their messiah’s deeply irrational policies onto Hunter Biden’s laptop or Hillary Clinton or drag queens or whatever else is the right wing’s latest ginned-up enemy of All That Is Good And Right.
